“I am honored that Americans across the country have given their support to my candidacy and I am humbled to have won enough delegates to become the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee,” he said in a statement posted on his campaign website. “Our party has come together with the goal of putting the failures of the last three and a half years behind us. I have no illusions about the difficulties of the task before us. But whatever challenges lie ahead, we will settle for nothing less than getting America back on the path to full employment and prosperity. On Nov. 6, I am confident that we will unite as a country and begin the hard work of fulfilling the American promise and restoring our country to greatness.”

The Texas contest caps off a contentious Republican primary season during which Romney often clashed with his GOP challengers.

“During the primaries, Gov. Romney distinguished himself as the best in a field of worsts on issues of equality for LGBT Americans,” Human Rights Campaign spokesperson Fred Sainz told the Blade. “Now that he’s clinched his party’s nomination, we hope that he’ll give careful reconsideration to the most basic issues of equality that he previously opposed.”

“Mitt Romney now has the votes to clinch the Republican nomination this August,” he told the Blade. “If the Romney campaign wants make clear that the Republican candidate believes in a society where Americans are judged solely on their ability to perform, now is the time to prove it by showing unambiguous support for federal protections from workplace discrimination.”

Cooper further noted that 66 percent of registered GOP voters now support these legal provisions.

“If Mitt Romney were to stand up tomorrow and declare that no American should ever fear for their job because of who they are, it would be a win for all of us, including the candidate himself,” he said.

Romney has not secured the Republican nomination with an alleged win in Tuesday’s Texas Primary. The battle is in the State Conventions where Ron Paul is picking up the real votes, the delegates. Many Romney delegates will show up in Tampa and vote for Ron Paul because it is the right thing to do for the cause of our liberty, our freedom, and the Liberation of Humanity. We do not really want to be safe and secure under Obama and our out-of-control criminal government.